Porphyrion (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Porphyrion (Ancient Greek: Πορφυρίων) may refer to the following characters:

• Porphyrion, one of the Giants, offspring of Gaea, born from the blood that fell when Uranus (Sky) was castrated by their son Cronus.^[1]
• Porphyrion, prince of Ephyra as the son of King Sisyphus, possibly by the Pleiad Merope.^[2] Thus, he is the brother of Glaucus, Ornytion, Thersander, Almus and Sinon.
• Porphyrion, son of and one of the Athenian sacrificial victims for the Minotaur.^[3] He may be the brother of Hesione, another sacrificial victim granting that their father is only one and the same.

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• Hesiod, Theogony, in The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, Massachusetts.,Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Maurus Servius Honoratus, In Vergilii carmina comentarii. Servii Grammatici qui feruntur in Vergilii carmina commentarii; recensuerunt Georgius Thilo et Hermannus Hagen. Georgius Thilo. Leipzig. B. G. Teubner. 1881. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.

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